{"id":12432,"date":"2014-01-14T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T22:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:38:05","slug":"weve-never-had-sex-in-midwife-and-we-never-shall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2014\/01\/weve-never-had-sex-in-midwife-and-we-never-shall.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019ve never had sex in Midwife and we never shall.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026 Anybody else watch this show? If not, here\u2019s as good a reason as any to start watching. <\/p>\n

Call the Midwife<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Heidi Thomas, who created the award-winning programme, said sexual activity would have no place in the 1950s setting. <\/p>\n

She told Radio Times<\/a> magazine: \u201cWe\u2019ve never had sex in Midwife and we never shall. We have the consequences of it, certainly, but I always try to look at things within the historic context.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the East End of the 1950s \u2013 or so a lot of people have told us \u2013 children playing out in the street would see the midwives arrive and they thought the babies came in the box on the back of the bike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not a soap, we\u2019re a medical drama, but we do tell a story about women in the 1950s and it\u2019s quite nice to show these rather chaste romances, which are so different from the ones girls have today. SOURCE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not like that horrible show, Downton Abbey, and that unspeakable thing they did to poor Anna. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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